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The Mechanical Properties of Wood

INTRODUCTION
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In this case the surface of fracture is described as brash.
~Compression failure~ (see Fig.

17, No.

5) has few variations except that it appears at various distances from the neutral plane of the beam.

It is very common in green timbers.

The compressive stress parallel to the fibres causes them to buckle or bend as in an endwise compressive test.


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